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Speaker #1: Uncovering drivers of antibiotic prescriptions in UK primary care
Miguel AG Belmonte, PhD, is a Research Associate in FBMH, working in BRIT (big data research to tackle antibiotic resistance) under Greater Manchester Connected Health Cities project. He obtained a PhD in Statistics from Warwick followed by a Research Fellowship in Economics at Strathclyde. He has worked in industry for two years analysing and forecasting employee sickness absence in private and public companies. Current research interests lie in the application of computationally efficient methods to analyse vast amounts of health-related observation records in a timely manner. Models and inference methods adopted aim at uncovering latent relationships and drivers of data generating processes that are useful to formulate policy recommendations.
Speaker #2: The Learning Health Care System in action
Vicki Palin is an epidemiologist in training, having recently submitted her PhD, researching glucose sensing of the placenta in pregnancies complicated my maternal diabetes, at the University of Manchester. She received a Master’s degree in Maternal and Fetal Health Research at The University of Manchester (2011) and a bachelor’s degree in Human Medical Sciences from the University of Leeds (2010). Her current position is within Manchester’s Connected Health Cities (CHC) research group, where she is part of a team deciphering the challenges we face with antibiotic resistance. Bacteria are becoming more resistant to antibiotics and as a result less effective. The team hope to make better use of health data to understand the misuse of antibiotics prescribing and implement changes to practice to reduce the unnecessary overuse of antibiotics in the UK. Vicki is particularly interested in the patient factors that influence antibiotic use in primary care and which patient groups are currently at risk from antibiotic failure.
Speaker #3: Overprescribing of antibiotics in UK primary care: ‘ignorant’ patients or GPs or are the causes more complex?
Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa is a physician with training in Pharmaco-epidemiology from McGill University and Utrecht University and training in Medical Ethics from Kings College. He is Professor of Health eResearch at the Health eResearch Centre/Farr Institute, The University of Manchester. Previously, he was the Scientific Director of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. One of his current research interests is Efficient Trials, which aims to harness advanced health informatics and electronic health records to improve clinical trials. Another interest is the Learning HealthCare System in which routinely collected data are used to feedback actionable information to clinicians and patients. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and is a well-recognised speaker in the field of pragmatic trials and clinical epidemiology.
